 Hey everybody what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Jim Sonis of Fandle taking a look at this week of a PGA tour What's happening Jim? It's all good Greg pretty interesting set up these next couple of weeks here for PGA because they're going to We are filled village for both this week and next week for two separate events So we'll answer interesting data to work with for next week for this week We can look back at past events at the Memorial Tournament as they get set for the first and only I believe Work-day charity open, so it should be a pretty fun couple of weeks here at the PGA. So I'm excited. How are you doing? I'm feeling good man Bryson B. Shambo finally picks up a victory The only thing I'm disappointed about today, no Bryson this week But that's okay because we do have Justin Thomas who this week on Fandle is priced at $12,000 Justin Thomas is your guy as your highest-priced player. How come? Yeah, there are a lot of reasons that I like Justin Thomas I think a lot of these same reasons apply to Patrick Cantley. He is 11,700 dollars I think that those to me are the 1a and 1b for this tournament The reason I prefer Justin Thomas is that he has slight edges over Cantley in a lot of different categories One of them being driving distance and the if you look back at past events at Weirfield Distance has mattered as in like guys who are good for the full PGA tour season from a distance perspective Tend to do well here Justin Thomas ranks 10th in this field in driving distance over the past 50 rounds according to fantasy national He is first in approach and also 13th in scrambling. So good all around from that perspective And you could counter by saying well Patrick Cantley won at this course last year Justin Thomas hasn't been too bad at this course either. Missed the cut last year but eighth year before that Fourth back in 2017 So he has course knowledge and good course history if he was not the winner last year as Cantley was Bendgrass is the worst putting surface for Justin Thomas, but he's still a roughly an average putter there And I think that you can deemphasize putting a bit for this event as well So I do like Cantley quite a bit and Cantley is tempting I think you could justify potentially jamming in both these guys But if I had to pick one I'd probably go Justin Thomas at $12,000 the approach a little bit better Distance a little bit better and he has equal course history to Patrick Cantley So give me Justin Thomas by a hair over Cantley at the top Is there a way to get Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantley in your lineups this week Jim? I think so because if you look at the the player pool on Fandle They're actually we're not talking about them today But they're actually a decent number of golfers in the the low 8,000 range Why find pretty intriguing and I kind of hate the upper 9,000 so you can you can skip tiers I think that's a pretty enticing thing to do here So yeah, you can fit in both and I am going to at least give it a try I think that it's both doable and very viable given the appeal in both those golfers Cantley and Justin Thomas the two clearest high-priced players for Jim on this week's slate He got Justin Thomas as his favorite by a nose at 12,000 but putting in both of them It's doable. Let's see if it's worth the shot you this weekend If you want to get a little bit cheaper than Patrick Cantley and Justin Thomas You can get to Victor Holland who's ten thousand nine hundred dollars on Fandle Holland obviously Participating a lot. He's been around that leaderboard quite a bit. So last week But Holland in your lineup here this week at ten thousand nine hundred Yeah, Greg We talked about Victor Holland a lot when we discuss him. We always talk about the ball striking We always say the ball striking is great I just wish he could make a putt but I kind of think that we shouldn't just assume Victor Holland is gonna Get a bad putter this weekend because if you look at the very small sample on Victor Holland's career He actually has been kind of okay when putting on bentgrass now I'm not gonna go out of my way to say okay You target Victor Havan whenever he's on bentgrass, but being Okay in a small sample is better than being terrible in a small sample So I think that's a positive for Victor Havan It has mentioned the ball striking is going to be elite if you look at the four events He has played since the end of the COVID-19 layoff. He's gained at least five point seven strokes t-degree in all four events He has gained at least nine point six t-degree in two straight and he's been at the top of the leaderboard in that category for consecutive events Hasn't got a top ten since the end of the COVID-19 layoff because of the bad putting But if he can get that putting to just be kind of normal this weekend and pair it with his usual ball striking Havan will pay off very easily at ten thousand nine hundred dollars You could pair him with a guy like Justin Thomas for Patrick Cantley or you could with a bit more balance of a lot And have a guy like Xander Shafley be your most expensive golfer than pair with Victor Havan If you do that you are avoiding that that those weird tears that we don't like below nine thousand dollars And I think there is a lot of appeal in that for this weekend So balance rosters in play Victor Havan a potential key part to those balance rosters and a guy with some serious upside If you can just think a putt or two this weekend as you mentioned we talk about Victor Havan a lot It's always revolving the putting because we know that ball striking ability and the putting just isn't always there this weekend He could put it together He's gonna be worth putting your lineup at this price at ten thousand nine hundred We have couple tears we want to avoid but this one it's a good one and a fair one for Victor Havan Up next we'll move a little farther down just a bit to ten thousand dollars And that's where Joaquin Neiman is at Neiman's price continues to steadily rise here Jim now cracking the fifth Digit why do you like this price for Joaquin Neiman? Yeah, I think it kind of goes back to the putting because again Normally Joaquin Neiman is not a good putter But he is actually a decent putter on Ben grass and that's where they'll be this weekend So that's going to be a normal thing for Joaquin Neiman and the ball striking as I mentioned Victor Havan It's going to be good. We know that's going to be the case and I think we can better assume He will be not terrible on the greens when he's on Ben grass versus other Other surfaces Neiman has looked pretty good recently He's gained at least one point nine strokes and approach in all three events since the end of the COVID-19 layoff That has pushed him up to 14th in this field and approach over the past 50 rounds according to fantasy national He is also 23rd in distance So we'll have distance and good approach play and he'll probably be at least okay on the greens And Neiman is a golf worth experience on this course. He has played here twice He's played here very well in both those events as well So Neiman kind of checks every box good ball striking not terrible putting and he has course experience as well I don't care about course history. I just want course experience Neiman has that and then the the history does help too Because it has been good experience for him at this course So Neiman fits really well what I want If you go back to where we were discussing with Victor Havan where I'm okay going with balanced rosters every now and then That allows you to get to guys like Joaquin Neiman for that third slot on your roster I think that is very enticing for this week. So when I decided to go balanced a lot of the time Joaquin Neiman is going to be in that lineup when you want that balance attack where you have the high price players up top Good crew in the middle and then some not so great guys in the end. Joaquin Neiman fits perfectly. He does a lot of things well Just not all that much really well, although the ball striking obviously is there Was he of Joaquin Neiman to put it all together this weekend Up next Corey Connors at $9,200 but I've not talked about Corey Connors in a few weeks I feel like the only time we talked about him Since COVID the COVID break was over. It was that first tournament and now we're back with Corey Connors at $9,200 Why is Connors all of a sudden appearing back in our lineup here? Yeah, we kind of need to go at Connors in events where we can deemphasize putting a bit because he's a disaster He's a complete disaster and that's going to be the case this weekend I am going in assuming Corey Connors will lose a couple of strokes putting but The ball striking is so good that he may be able to make up for that So I can justify him at $9,200 and it's you know, it's not his worst putting surface So at least there is that but the big reason we can go to Connors here is that he is still a stud on his approach He has gained at least 2.4 strokes an approach in all three events Since the the resumption to play and that is despite missing the cut in one of those events So he played just two rounds still gained 2.4 strokes an approach He's been above three in the other two events If you look at those two events where he did make the cut Connors finished 21st in 19th And he has enough distance where he will grade out well at least for me for this course as well So he's $9,200 and you have to take on those concerns for sure with Corey Connors because he could lose six You know six strokes putting for this weekend. That is a major detriment But I think the upside is there if he can just be okay He can definitely get you a top 20 top 10 type finish for $9,200 Corey Connors, Joel Damon both kind of in that similar mold Harold Barnard III as well all here in the low 9,000s I like this range a lot more than the upper 9,000 So I'd much rather live here than forcing with the guys just below Joaquin Neiman But among those guys with the good ball striking the bad putting put Connors at the top of my list Again, when it's about the ball striking you have Corey Connors. He's good putting Not really we do this a lot here on the hurry up where we find the ball strikers The guys will get you a lot of a lot of uh fandal points I totally get to the green where we'll let you down and we only are looking for a few thoughts to go our way Hopefully Corey Connors can make that happen for us this weekend Let's go even cheaper. Let's go under $9,000 not all the way to the low 8,000s But the high 8,000 $8,700 specifically and that's where Emiliano Grillo comes to mind here Grillo at $8,700 First time since the cover break. We've gone with Grillo who was somebody that Consistently earlier in this season. We were going with how come Grillo is back on our radar now Jim He's very similar to Joaquin Neiman where you can specifically target him on Bencraze greens because Neiman and Grillo are bad putters on both surfaces But Bencraze the one area where they're actually not that bad It's very much the best surface for Grillo is actually a plus putter on Bencraze where he is Actively actively negative on most other surfaces. So that's a good thing And he is also in that same mold you were talking about where we expected to get the ball on the green In an efficient manner and we're looking at Grillo here He ranks fourth in this field an approach over the past 50 rounds according to fantasy national He gained a 4.7 strokes an approach at the travelers just a couple weeks ago So he's looked good since the end of the COVID-19 layoff with those second and third shots And that's a good thing now Grillo is not as long off the tee as most the other guys we've discussed here so far today But not a wet noodle used 89 the distance. He's 11th and fairways gain. So even though he's not going to bomb it He'll be okay And he'll put it on the fairway at least which is a good thing if he's not going to go super long So Grillo, I think because we're going back to Bencraze because he's $8,700 Should be a decent bet to make the cuts at a not so high salary That's not always the case if you look at Grillo's player card You're going to see a lot of missed cuts on there But I think at the different situation when he's on a putting surface like this So this kind of hoping that the ball striking stays where it is And he can do his usual stuff on Bencraze because if Grillo does that he's a pretty good bet to pay off at Just $8,700 Finally talking about someone that can actually put the ball well and that is exactly what Emiliano Grillo is As you said comparable to what he needed back on our radar here We uh, Grillo and even in our lineups Grillo $8,700. You're getting a really well priced golfer here under nine grand And I think it's worth it One last golfer to bring up today on the show is $8,600 I think it's a really good price to have a brand in steel who has come up on the leaderboard as of late steel $8,600. I think it's a good spot for him and a good price ship. Yeah, I think that when we're looking at Brendan steel I would de-emphasize the recent good finishes. He was sixth pretty recently that was fueled by putting and Shocker Greg Brendan still is not a good putter. I know this will surprise you to hear that But it's not a good putter But he does other things really well And I think that that's what draws me towards Brendan steel and the thing that you could debate about In Weirfield is whether you want to emphasize distance or accuracy off the tee But steel thankfully has both he ranks 47th and distance the past 50 rounds according to fantasy national But he's also 43rd in fairways games So he can go along but he can also put it in the middle of fairway That's a good thing Especially when you combine it with his approach play because steel also ranks 40th an approach over that same time frame We've also seen steel has spike weeks So he can have big individual weeks for this approach plays gained at least 2.8 on approach in three of the past eight events Since january 1st He's gained at least 4.8 strokes and approached twice in that time So he can have big weeks with his second and third shot. That's a good thing if you want some upside I'd probably try to avoid steel for cash games. I honestly think for cash games There is some incentive to spend all the way down for guys like Sebastian Munoz. I don't mind Cameron Tringale I think that they are in play as super low dollar cash game plays But for tournaments, I do want that upside steel possesses that because of the spike weeks He can have with his approach play and because he can win both with accuracy and with distance off the tee So steel 8600 dollars. He's got good win odds over at vandal sports book Oh, which means the upside is there. So as long as you're not going here in a cash game roster I do think steel is someone I am I am willing to target for a tournament Certainly not a surprise that he's not a good putter and that He could have some individual success like you say finished six couple of weeks back Based on that putter fine It wasn't the week that we're used to with brendon steel because he putted so well We'll get that this weekend here We've seen him have some success if you want to pay up to this number He's worth it. You want to go down to some of the other players that jim mentioned you could do that too But I really like brendon steel. I think this is a really good price for him as well That's it a note for us here on the vandal hurry up jim. It has been fun And it's the first two weeks where we got like you said the same course to talk about But there's gonna be a couple of different players next week. I think yeah, it's gonna be different different fields They're gonna change the course a little bit and it'll be a good spot to buy low on golfers who may not do well this weekend So I think it'll be a fun week for dfs next week looking forward to it Hopefully, uh, we're not buying low on the same guys we use this weekend because I'd prefer they just have success this week instead It'll make the research easier for you my friend. Yeah, and maybe just maybe next week We might even see tiger woods make his post-covid hurry up debut. We'll see for jim's honest I'm greg sauce, but thanks so much for watching. Enjoy the tournament. Stay safe everybody